Winter has it's perks... morning breaks later. While on my way to work, fighting through heavy traffic, I stopped over at a high point of the area we live in to take a photo of the sunrise.

The mountain range in the distance is known as the Boland Mountains. "Boland" is an Afrikaans word meaning "land above". The Boland region is a area of the Western Cape, inland from the sea and thus higher in altitude than the more coastal regions. Some of the towns in the Boland are Wellington, Paarl, Robertson and Worcester.

I spent about 10 minutes taking different shots in the crisp morning air. By the time I was done and had headed down to the main road, the traffic had miraculously disappeared. It was a beautiful morning.